Scenes from a Silent World : Or, Prisons and their Inmates
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1108021913
ISBN-13
9781108021913
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
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GB
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GB
Publication Date
Oct 28th, 2010
Print length
276 Pages
Weight
360 grams
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21.50 x 13.80 x 1.90 cms
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This 1889 work on prisons, capital punishment, and the need for reform, was based on experience of prison visiting. Skene makes a humane and non-judgmental case for the rehabilitation as well as punishment of prisoners, and against capital punishment. She actively helped prisoners and their families without distinction.
Francis Scougal was one of the pseudonyms of Felicia Skene (1821–1899), a writer and philanthropist, who also wrote fiction and religious works. She was particularly noted for her work with 'fallen women' and in the campaign for penal reform. This 1889 work was the result of ten years prison-visiting at Oxford Gaol. She argues for greater emphasis on rehabilitation of prisoners: they will be bound to re-offend if they are treated inhumanly while imprisoned and as outcasts when released. She argues against mandatory sentencing, on the grounds that individual cases cannot be treated identically; and opposes capital punishment, both because miscarriages of justice are bound to occur at times, and also because it does not act as a deterrent. Her non-judgmental account is remarkably modern. For more information on this author, see http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=skenfe
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